• Source: 1792 in Great Britain

      • Events from the year 1792 in Great Britain.


      Incumbents


      Monarch – George III
      Prime Minister – William Pitt the Younger (Tory)
      Foreign Secretary – Lord Grenville


      Events


      January – the investment management business which will become the Charles Stanley Group in London is established as a banking partnership in Sheffield.
      25 January – the radical London Corresponding Society is established.
      7 March – a settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.
      23 March – Joseph Haydn premieres his Symphony No. 94 (the "Surprise"), the second of his twelve London symphonies, at the Hanover Square Rooms.
      4 June – Captain George Vancouver claims Puget Sound for Britain.
      21 June – Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony, at Primrose Hill in London.
      September – Macartney Embassy: George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney, sails from Portsmouth in HMS Lion as the first official envoy from the Kingdom of Great Britain to China.
      14 September – radical Thomas Paine flees to France after being indicted for treason.
      29 September – first St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, London (Roman Catholic) consecrated as a chapel.
      2 October – Baptist Missionary Society is founded in Kettering.
      18 December – the trial of Thomas Paine in absentia for treason begins. He is outlawed.


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      Over 300 petitions are presented to Parliament against the slave trade. The House of Commons pledges to abolish the trade "gradually".
      "Year of the Sheep" in the Scottish Highlands: mass emigration of crofters following Clearances for grazing.
      Fox's Libel Act restores to juries the right to determine what constitutes libel; it remains in force until abolition of criminal libel in 2010.
      Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna establish the newsagent's business in Little Grosvenor Street, London, which will become W H Smith.


      Publications


      Thomas Holcroft's Anna St. Ives, the first British Jacobin novel.
      Thomas Paine's second edition of Rights of Man, urging the overthrow of the British monarchy.
      Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest works of feminist literature.


      Births


      10 February – Frederick Marryat, author (died 1848)
      19 February – Roderick Murchison, geologist (died 1871)
      7 March – John Herschel, mathematician and astronomer (died 1871)
      12 April – John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (died 1840)
      25 April – John Keble, churchman and poet (died 1866)
      17 May – Anne Isabella Milbanke, wife of George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (died 1860)
      16 June – John Linnell, painter (died 1882)
      7 July – William Henry Smith, businessman (died 1865)
      4 August – Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (died 1822)
      13 August – Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen of William IV (died 1849)
      18 August – John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Prime Minister (died 1878)
      11 November – Mary Anne Disraeli, wife of Benjamin Disraeli (died 1872)


      Deaths


      27 January – George Horne, bishop (born 1730)
      8 February – Hannah Snell, soldier (born 1723)
      23 February – Sir Joshua Reynolds, painter (born 1723)
      3 March – Robert Adam, architect (born 1728)
      10 March – John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister (born 1713)
      3 April – George Pocock, admiral (born 1706)
      30 April – John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman, First Lord of the Admiralty and rake (born 1718)
      24 May – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, naval officer (born 1719)
      4 June – John Burgoyne, general (born 1723)
      18 July – John Paul Jones, sailor and the United States's first well-known naval fighter in the American Revolution (born 1747)
      3 August – Richard Arkwright, inventor (born 1732)
      5 August – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister (born 1732)
      28 October – John Smeaton, civil engineer (born 1724)


      See also


      1792 in Wales


      References

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